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John 7:7
The world cannot hate you, but it does hate Me because I testify about it— that its deeds are evil.
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Amos 5:10
They hate the one who convicts the guilty at the city gate and despise the one who speaks with integrity.
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Micah 2:7
House of Jacob, should it be asked,“ Is the Spirit of the Lord impatient? Are these the things He does?” Don’t My words bring good to the one who walks uprightly?
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John 3:19-21
“ This, then, is the judgment: The light has come into the world, and people loved darkness rather than the light because their deeds were evil.For everyone who practices wicked things hates the light and avoids it, so that his deeds may not be exposed.But anyone who lives by the truth comes to the light, so that his works may be shown to be accomplished by God.”
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John 17:14
I have given them Your word. The world hated them because they are not of the world, as I am not of the world.
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Jeremiah 38:4
The officials then said to the king,“ This man ought to die, because he is weakening the morale of the warriors who remain in this city and of all the people by speaking to them in this way. This man is not seeking the well-being of this people, but disaster.”
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1 Kings 22 27
and say,‘ This is what the king says: Put this guy in prison and feed him only bread and water until I come back safely.’”
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Matthew 10:22
You will be hated by everyone because of My name. But the one who endures to the end will be delivered.
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2 Chronicles 36 16
But they kept ridiculing God’s messengers, despising His words, and scoffing at His prophets, until the Lord’s wrath was so stirred up against His people that there was no remedy.
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Psalms 34:21
Evil brings death to the wicked, and those who hate the righteous will be punished.
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Isaiah 49:7
This is what the Lord, the Redeemer of Israel, his Holy One, says to one who is despised, to one abhorred by people, to a servant of rulers:“ Kings will see and stand up, and princes will bow down, because of the Lord, who is faithful, the Holy One of Israel— and He has chosen you.”
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Micah 2:11
If a man of wind comes and invents lies:“ I will preach to you about wine and beer,” he would be just the preacher for this people!
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Jeremiah 18:18
Then certain ones said,“ Come, let’s make plans against Jeremiah, for instruction will never be lost from the priest, or counsel from the wise, or an oracle from the prophet. Come, let’s denounce him and pay no attention to all his words.”
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Proverbs 5:12-14
and you will say,“ How I hated discipline, and how my heart despised correction.I didn’t obey my teachers or listen closely to my mentors.I am on the verge of complete ruin before the entire community.”
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1 Kings 21 27-1 Kings 21 29
When Ahab heard these words, he tore his clothes, put sackcloth over his body, and fasted. He lay down in sackcloth and walked around subdued.Then the word of the Lord came to Elijah the Tishbite:“ Have you seen how Ahab has humbled himself before Me? I will not bring the disaster during his lifetime, because he has humbled himself before Me. I will bring the disaster on his house during his son’s lifetime.”
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1 Kings 20 35-1 Kings 20 43
One of the sons of the prophets said to his fellow prophet by the word of the Lord,“ Strike me!” But the man refused to strike him.He told him,“ Because you did not listen to the voice of the Lord, mark my words: When you leave me, a lion will kill you.” When he left him, a lion attacked and killed him.The prophet found another man and said to him,“ Strike me!” So the man struck him, inflicting a wound.Then the prophet went and waited for the king on the road. He disguised himself with a bandage over his eyes.As the king was passing by, he cried out to the king and said,“ Your servant marched out into the middle of the battle. Suddenly, a man turned aside and brought someone to me and said,‘ Guard this man! If he is ever missing, it will be your life in place of his life, or you will weigh out 75 pounds of silver.’But while your servant was busy here and there, he disappeared.” The king of Israel said to him,“ That will be your sentence; you yourself have decided it.”He quickly removed the bandage from his eyes. The king of Israel recognized that he was one of the prophets.The prophet said to him,“ This is what the Lord says:‘ Because you released from your hand the man I had set apart for destruction, it will be your life in place of his life and your people in place of his people.’”The king of Israel left for home resentful and angry, and he entered Samaria.
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Genesis 37:8
“ Are you really going to reign over us?” his brothers asked him.“ Are you really going to rule us?” So they hated him even more because of his dream and what he had said.
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John 15:18-19
“ If the world hates you, understand that it hated Me before it hated you.If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own. However, because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of it, the world hates you.
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Jeremiah 43:3-4
Rather, Baruch son of Neriah is inciting you against us to hand us over to the Chaldeans to put us to death or to deport us to Babylon!”So Johanan son of Kareah and all the commanders of the armies did not obey the voice of the Lord to stay in the land of Judah.
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Isaiah 3:11
Woe to the wicked— it will go badly for them, for what they have done will be done to them.
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Proverbs 9:8
Don’t rebuke a mocker, or he will hate you; rebuke a wise man, and he will love you.
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1 Kings 21 20
Ahab said to Elijah,“ So, you have caught me, my enemy.” He replied,“ I have caught you because you devoted yourself to do what is evil in the Lord’s sight.
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1 Kings 18 4
and took 100 prophets and hid them, 50 men to a cave, and provided them with food and water when Jezebel slaughtered the Lord’s prophets.
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Zechariah 11:8
In one month I got rid of three shepherds. I became impatient with them, and they also detested me.
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1 Kings 22 13
The messenger who went to call Micaiah instructed him,“ Look, the words of the prophets are unanimously favorable for the king. So let your words be like theirs, and speak favorably.”
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Revelation 11:7-10
When they finish their testimony, the beast that comes up out of the abyss will make war with them, conquer them, and kill them.Their dead bodies will lie in the public square of the great city, which prophetically is called Sodom and Egypt, where also their Lord was crucified.And representatives from the peoples, tribes, languages, and nations will view their bodies for three and a half days and not permit their bodies to be put into a tomb.Those who live on the earth will gloat over them and celebrate and send gifts to one another because these two prophets brought judgment to those who live on the earth.
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Galatians 4:16
Have I now become your enemy by telling you the truth?
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Proverbs 15:12
A mocker doesn’t love one who corrects him; he will not consult the wise.
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1 Kings 19 14
“ I have been very zealous for the Lord God of Hosts,” he replied,“ but the Israelites have abandoned Your covenant, torn down Your altars, and killed Your prophets with the sword. I alone am left, and they’re looking for me to take my life.”
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1 Kings 19 10
He replied,“ I have been very zealous for the Lord God of Hosts, but the Israelites have abandoned Your covenant, torn down Your altars, and killed Your prophets with the sword. I alone am left, and they are looking for me to take my life.”
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2 Kings 9 22
When Joram saw Jehu he asked,“ Do you come in peace, Jehu?” He answered,“ What peace can there be as long as there is so much prostitution and witchcraft from your mother Jezebel?”
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Isaiah 57:19-21
creating words of praise.” The Lord says,“ Peace, peace to the one who is far or near, and I will heal him.But the wicked are like the storm-tossed sea, for it cannot be still, and its waters churn up mire and muck.There is no peace for the wicked,” says my God.
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Isaiah 30:10
They say to the seers,“ Do not see,” and to the prophets,“ Do not prophesy the truth to us. Tell us flattering things. Prophesy illusions.
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Jeremiah 20:10
For I have heard the gossip of many people,“ Terror is on every side! Report him; let’s report him!” Everyone I trusted watches for my fall.“ Perhaps he will be deceived so that we might prevail against him and take our vengeance on him.”
